Quotes About Skill

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

get busy copying... travelling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means of acquiring a skill.

What is your idea of mastery? Having the experience to know what you want to do, the vision to see how to do it, the courage to work with what you're given, and the skill to execute that first impulse—all so you can take bigger chances.

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.

Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced

A gimme can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers neither of whom can putt very well

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.

Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.

Everyone does it." "But no one talks about it," Gloria said. "About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

Her arms rippled with muscles. Harriet was impressed. Apparently playing the harp only looked delicate.

There was no trick or stunt that he couldn't accomplish with the greatest of ease; we had balancing stunts and all that jazz — nothing he couldn't do. He had absolute unerring control over his body.

He could sing in more different keys during the course of one song than anybody I've ever heard,

You've always been handy with a knife, Mother